Hello friends, This is the first ever Palm Tree Perspective your weekly view into the sports world as seen by myself, CJ producer for Lunch with McCabe and Friends and Calling All Sports Saturday.

Barry B*nds and The Ecko Heard in the Hall:

This is the now legendary 756th home run ball that was hit by one Barry B*nds. Now do I feel that this ball should be in the hall of fame, I most certainly do. Do I think that B*nds has a horrid personality, I definitely do. Do I feel that the ball should be branded with a *, oh hell no. I feel that Mark Ecko went to far by branding the ball with an asterisk. I realize that he let the fans choose. Having a piece of history such as the 756 ball in the hall of fame that has been altered doesn’t make it a piece of history anymore. It makes it a publicity stunt. You know that Mark Ecko bought the ball and wanted to do something with it to help his clothing line, and for personal gain. Now forever there will be an advertisement in the Baseball Hall of Fame for Ecko clothing. There may not be any Ecko logo’s but everybody knows who bought the ball and who put it there. Lets just hope they don’t showcase the eye soar of an asterisk that is on the ball.

Nutty Buddy for Chris Snyder

Chris Snyder is in some kind of pain, he has to be one of the bravest men alive to be able to still walk after taking a shot to the lug-nuts. Now if you listened to Roc and Manuch today you heard friend of the show Brad Steinke mention the Nutty Buddy. This thing has to be the greatest thing for your cash and prizes since the invention of the, well lets face it its probably the greatest testicular protection ever invented. I have played hockey for years and I would play free and easy if I had one of these suckers protecting yours truly boys. I’m thinking we need to get off the snide and spear head the Nutty Buddy for Snyder initiative. Who’s with me?

Snyder’s injury also begs the question, what is the most P.C. way to report a shot to the walnuts. I was covering the D-Backs on said night of the injury and Conor Jackson asks me and a couple of reporters; what is the most P.C. way to report a shot to the nuts. I stood there dumbfounded as the D-Backs first baseman laughed while Snyder sat in his locker in pain. I have heard “Cup Check”, Fractured Testicle, and Contusion of the Left Nut all this week. I don’t know, if you have a better one, please let me know.

Rookie Play for Massive Pay

A hot topic around the NFL has been the amount that rookies are getting paid straight out of college. I unfortunately am a Raiders fan, and I am personally hoping that Darren McFadden is worth the 6 years 60 million they are paying him. I can give you one first hand example as to why rookies should not be paid based on their success in college. Robert Gallery is one of the worst picks ever, and never lived up to the money he was paid to anchor the Raiders offensive line. There are numerous players in the NFL that have been given huge contracts laden with guaranteed money and incentives, but it seems nothing more than a crap shoot as to whether or not they will live up to their pay scale.

I like what the NBA does by having a rookie salary cap, I dont know if it would work in the NFL though. Different players require different skills, and they should be paid based on their ability at their position. That being said paying a player just because he is the number one overall draft pick more money than the player in the year previous regardless of position is absurd. Every year the first overall pick gets more money than the player picked in his position in the draft from the year previous, at this rate we are going to have players with paychecks consisting of nine digits. I don’t think that it will ever get that far, but when are we going to see unproven players being paid reasonably instead of the way they play against college players.

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written by CJ "L.A." Boyle